CONTENTS -- Preface -- Chapter 1 INTRODUCTION -- 1.1 Elementary Particles in the Standard Model -- 1.2 Interactions Among Fundamental Particles -- Chapter 2 WEAK INTERACTION -- 2.1 The Fermi Theory of Weak Interaction -- 2.1.1 Parity Violation in Weak Interaction -- 2.1.2 Road to Current-Current V - A Interaction -- 2.1.2.1 Helicity and chirality -- 2.1.2.2 Observation of electron helicity in the B-decay -- 2.1.2.3 Determination of neutrino helicity -- 2.1.2.4 Angular correlation between e+ and v -- 2.1.2.5 V - A interaction -- 2.1.3 Lepton Current Universality -- 2.1.4 Pion Decays -- 2.1.5 Cabibbo Currents -- 2.1.6 Difficulties in the Fermi Theory -- 2.1.7 Unitarity Violation -- 2.1.8 Non-renormalizability -- 2.2 Intermediate Weak Boson Model -- Chapter 3 SYMMETRIES AND THE GAUGE THEORIES -- 3.1 Global Symmetries and Noether's Theorem -- 3.2 Local Gauge Symmetries and Gauge Fields -- 3.2.1 Quantum Electrodynamics - U(1) model- -- 3.2.2 Yang-Mills Gauge Theory - SU(2) model- -- 3.3 Spontaneous Symmetry Breaking and Goldstone Bosons -- 3.4 Higgs Mechanism -- Chapter 4 THE STANDARD MODEL OF ELECTROWEAK INTERACTIONS -- 4.1 Fermions in the GWS Model -- 4.2 SU(2)L x U(1)Y Invariant Lagrangian -- 4.3 Spontaneous Breaking of SU(2)L X U(1)Y Symmetry -- 4.4 Charged and Neutral Currents Comparison with Effective Fermi Theory -- 4.5 Addition of More Leptons -- 4.6 Extension to Quarks -- 4.6.1 Quark Mass Matrix -- 4.6.2 Flavor Mixing -- 4.6.2.1 The case of charged current interaction -- 4.6.2.2 The case of neutral current interaction -- 4.7 Anomalies -- Chapter 5 QUANTUM CHROMODYNAMICS -- 5.1 Evidence for Colors -- 5.2 QCD Lagrangian and the Strength of Color Forces -- 5.3 Running Coupling Constants -- 5.3.1 Renormalized Charge in QED -- 5.3.2 Running Coupling Constant in QCD.

Chapter 6 NEUTRINO MASSES AND NEUTRINO OSCILLATIONS -- 6.1 Type of Fermions and Fermion Masses -- 6.2 Neutrino Masses -- 6.2.1 Possible Types of Neutrino Masses -- 6.2.2 The Mechanism of Neutrino Mass Generation -- 6.3 Flavor Mixing and Neutrino Oscillation (in the Vacuum) -- 6.3.1 Flavor Mixing -- 6.3.2 Neutrino Oscillation (in the Vacuum) -- 6.4 Resonant Neutrino Matter Oscillation -- 6.5 Neutrino Oscillation in the Three Generation Scheme -- 6.5.1 Vacuum Neutrino Oscillation in the Three Generation Scheme -- 6.5.2 Resonant Matter Oscillations of Neutrinos in the Three Generation Scheme -- 6.6 Atmospheric and Solar Neutrino Oscillations -- 6.6.1 Atmospheric Neutrino Oscillation -- 6.6.2 Solar Neutrino Oscillation -- Chapter 7 SUPERSYMMETRY -- 7.1 Supersymmetry and the Hierarchy Problem -- 7.2 Two-Component Notation -- 7.3 SUSY Algebra and SUSY Group -- 7.4 Superfield Formulation -- 7.5 Chiral Superfield -- 7.6 Wess-Zumino Model -- 7.7 Vector Superfield -- 7.8 SUSY QED -- 7.9 SUSY Yang-Mills Theories -- 7.10 Minimal Supersymmetric Standard Model (MSSM) -- 7.11 Some Phenomenological Predictions of SUSY Gauge Theories -- 7.12 Spontaneous SUSY Breaking -- Chapter 8 PRECISION TEST OF ELECTROWEAK RADIATIVE CORRECTIONS AND NEW PHYSICS -- 8.1 The Meaning of Precision Test of Electroweak Radiative Corrections -- 8.2 Decoupling and Non-decoupling -- 8.3 Oblique Corrections and S T U Parameters -- 8.4 Global Symmetries -- 8.5 Operator Analysis -- Chapter 9 FLAVOR PHYSICS AND CP VIOLATION -- 9.1 The Interest in Flavor Physics and CP Violation -- 9.2 Flavor Symmetry and FCNC Rare Processes -- 9.3 Rare Processes in Kaon System -- 9.4 CP Violation in Kobayashi-Maskawa Model -- 9.5 CP Violation in the Neutral K System -- 9.6 CP Violation in the Neutral B System -- Appendix A Notation and Useful Relations -- A.1 Four Vectors -- A.2 Y Matrices.

A.3 Trace Theorems -- A.4 Right- and Left-Handed Dirac Spinors -- A.5 Dirac Equation in the y5-Diagonal Representation -- Appendix B Cross Sections and Feynman Rule -- B.1 Cross Sections -- B.2 Decay Width -- B.3 Feynman Rule -- Appendix C Basics of the Group Theory -- C.1 Group and Representation -- C.2 SU(n) Group and Lie Algebra -- C.3 Representation in SU(n) Group -- Appendix D C, P and T Transformation -- D.1 Parity or Space Inversion P -- D.2 Time Inversion T -- D.3 Charge Conjugation C -- D.4 CP Transformation -- Appendix E The Quark Model -- E.1 Isospin Symmetry -- E.2 Quark Model and SU(3) Symmetry -- E.3 Representations of Mesons and Baryons -- Bibliography -- Index.